The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1887-01-19
order are Friendship, Love, Truth,
Faith, Hope and Charity,

SAAeO ehS houoSllclu vi ldllIt w Z
are taught to regard the "bow IN the
heavens" arching the pathway of
the recedeing storm, as an emblem
of that deathless covenant, made by
the Eternal Jehovah, that the world
should never more be destroyed by
the mighty cateclasym, hence the
''bow IN the clouds" IS the token of
Gods friendship to man!
The principle OF friendship, plant
ed in the heart, leads US to do for
brother what we would have brother
do for US IN like circumstances.
When we hear of a case of destl.
tuition, friendship prompts US to
relieve it, to feed the hungry and
clothe the naked.
The good Odd Fellow appears
watching by the couch ofpsin,
TIL the light Of day shall wsne;
TIL the evening star is high.
Till the midnight shadows ny,
Silent, wakeful vigils keeping
On the restless sufferer. sleeping.'
And when death has done his work
he is there to straighten the silent
sleeper for the grave, and to mingle
his true tears with those OF wife,
mother, sister or daughter. With a
sad heart, IN company with his
brothers Of the order, he carries the
bier to the sacred depository tor
human dust, and softly lays the
brother in the clay cold narrow house,
and as thoughts of Immortality crowd
upon the mind, and the lamp OF the
resurrection, lighted by the Lord of
life, lights up the charnel house, he
casts his sprig of evergreen upon
the coffin lid and bids goodbye to
the brother on the shores of time,
with the assurance that there will be
a happy greeting IN the land beyond
the grave.
Is the second principle we will notice
IN this connection. We find in the
holy Bible the command, "Love the
Lord, thy God, with all thy heart
mind and strength" and "thy neigh
Dor as thy SELF" Love IS the prin-
ciple for action with the good Odd.
Fellow. 1t ls the element IN which
he moves, the grand motive powel
. to his efforts to do good.
The beauty of this noble order i
, seen in this, that it teaches and i'm
. presses the law of universal brother
hood, our duty to love each tn
/, other; it tells US in all our action
towards them to keep in view tn
golden rule, Whatsoever ye woul
, that others should do to you, do y
even SO to Them"
E Is the imperial virtue, a standing
s important principle with US.
s The Roman governor inquired G
the "Great Teacher" "What
TRUTH" and mankind has ever bee
on the search for it. The astrologis
:. and alchemists of old spent Ion
. years to arrive at primary truth, b.
). died without reaching the goal.
The swinging centuries glie
o. swiftly by, and on their broad boso
l. we find. here and there, some grail
r. of truth, until to-day we see Il
n "morning star in the east" the ha
4 binger of the coming day, when v
:. shall better understand the everlas
ID ing verities. Yes, brother, the wor
" is swinging out from its enswarth
ment of error, and soon shall tru
ascend the throne OF humanit
crowned and sceptered, to re,f
forever! Beautiful as a dream
>, heaven, is the poets VISION of Il
= everlasting virtue.
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again
TIL eternal ysars Of Coo are hers;
IN whilst srror, wounded, bleeding falls,
L. And dies amid her worshipers.
m NY friends, these three cardir
81 principles form the ''three links"
l our order, that bind together Il
,r- widely extended brotherhood, a